Let’s also focus less on how Emma Watson’s taking parts in problematic films, which she seems to be doing largely because her managers tell her it’s the only way to make it past Harry Potter, and more on how James Franco, Seth Rogan, Jonah Hill Jay whatsisface, and Cahnning Tatum made uncomfortable sex jokes and rape jokes around her until she was so uncomfortable she left halfway through filming This is the End- but by contract had to still be in the movie.
Let’s talk about how Evangeline Lilly signed onto the Hobbit movies on the condition that her character not be in a love triangle, and everyone involved rewrote the character so that she was, and she couldn’t leave. Let’s talk about how actresses are signed into films whose final products are the opposite of what they want to be a part of, and still wind up on-screen playing terrible, problematic, sexist roles, or even being sexually harassed and assaulted while on set. Let’s talk about the implications of an industry where women have no control over the part they play or the story they’re used to tell, and are forced to make difficult decisions about which producers and directors will and won’t completely screw them over.
If you identify as female and play video games. Please reblog this. I want to prove a point that there are LOADS of us. If you can spare the time. Tag what you play!
One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she’ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.
There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, “Why are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?”
My coworker replied, “That’s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.”
To which the substitute replied, “But she’s so fat. She doesn’t need it.”
Thin privilege is a small, pretty baby getting better childcare because the caretaker doesn’t think she’s too fat to be allowed to eat.
This reminds me of a cousin of mine who ended up with her kids being taken away from her by social services for a number of reasons but mostly for nearly killing her baby daughter. How?
By starving her. She insisted that her baby was ‘too fat’ and had an aim to remove any and all ‘chubbyness’ so her baby would be thin. She’d already been warned by her doctor about the baby not getting enough food, but insisted she knew best.
After several months of this her baby passed out cold one day and was rushed into hospital where the doctors found her to have severe malnutrition, a low body temperature and low pulse rate. They asked my cousin what she’d been feeding her daughter and she said “one bottle of skimmed milk a day. I don’t want her growing up fat.”
Even after nearly killing her daughter my cousin maintained her view that fat = bad and ended up with all her kids taken from her because she was starving them and neglecting them.
When your fatphobia leads you to starving your own children then you’ve got serious problems.
(Note. She still, to this day, maintains the view that she was right and the doctors were wrong. “They just want fat kids so they can keep employed treating them for all those diseases that being fat causes.” = her actual words.)
some dude living in london said “huh, greece isn’t doing so hot. thousands of greek people are living in poverty. hey, europe, let’s all chip in and help ‘em out, yeah?” and they did. they’ve raised 1.5 million euros in 5 days.
You know, I think it’s
important to consider the massive time dissonance the Gems experience.
The war was over
5,000 years ago, and Pearl seems to remember it clearly. She casually remarks
to Dewey how humans used to hunt and gather, and asks him “whatever happened
to that?” as if Dewey could have even possibly been alive back then. She tries
to take Steven out to space for a bit of a test run and reassures Greg that
she’ll have him back in 50 years.
This stuff is usually
played for laughs until you consider that Rose has been dead for, probably at
most, 11 years. To humans, that’s a pretty decent amount of time to grieve,
adjust, cope, and move on. Some of us probably don’t even have distinct
memories from 11 years ago.
But to Gems, where
5,000 years is nostalgic and 50 years is as casual as babysitting for the
weekend, Rose may as well have died yesterday. 11 years is nothing, less than
nothing, in Gem memory. And even with all their memories of Rose so raw and
recent, the Gems still pretend for Steven’s sake that they’ve already moved on.
…I think about this a lot every time one of them breaks down over Rose’s death.
What she means:
Why was Beast Boy's origin never fully explored in Teen Titans? And for that matter, what is the actual extent/true nature of his powers? Is he just a particularly-skilled shape shifter who favors the forms of various types of earthly wildlife, or is he actually somehow restricted to only taking the forms of animals that he's seen? And if the latter is the case, how is it that he's able to transform into a tyrannosaur? Has he seen one before? How old is he? Is he even mortal? Does he even age? I need to know
